Opinion | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.
Americans have a dysfunctional relationship with Twenty first-century wars. Most of us don’t combat in them, see the carnage or stay with their bodily and psychological ruins. Yet we can’t heal our personal nation until we reckon with their monstrous futility. For Graham Platner, that reckoning started when he was a 20-year-old infantryman in Iraq….